by Rob Coppinger | Apr 26, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Orion, Seradata News
When this blogger saw the headline of this 30 March article by Aviation Week’s senior space editor Frank Morring it seemed that the “program of record” that dare not speak its name had finally broken cover and spoken to the media after a self imposed...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 7, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Space Shuttle
In that great tradition of immoveable objects encountering the unstoppable force it seems the force has won out and the object, the flexible path aka plan A, is succumbing to Congressional willCertainly if you believe what NASAWatch thinks is happening behind...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 4, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Space Shuttle
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s bill for authorising human spaceflight does not differ markedly from the leaked 9 February dated bill text revealed by Hyperbola last weekThe Interesting changes are the following:Bolden must submit a National Space Transportation...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 5, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Personal spaceflight
Tweeted yesterday by Hyperbola, below is the full text of Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan’s response to Associated Press science writer Alicia Chang:That is not a “NASA plan”; it is the proposed budget from the White House. It will likely...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 2, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion
NASA’s first foray into private spaceflight, the commercial orbital transportation services programme, also known as COTS, has seen a 60% hike in the agency’s investment with the fiscal year 2011 budget Originally planned to cost $500 million which the...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 1, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion
US spaceflight website space.com has revealed that in a teleconference yesterday the US government’s Office of Management and Budgets’ director Peter Orszag and the White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer confirmed that president Barack...
